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How Writers Will Steal Your Life and Use it For Fiction

How Writers Will Steal Your Life and Use it For Fiction

A Brief History of Plagiarizing Identity, From Leo Tolstoy to Salman Rushdie

By Richard Cohen | May 18, 2016

How the Best Commencement Speech of All Time Was Bad for Literature

How the Best Commencement Speech of All Time Was Bad for Literature

David Foster Wallace's New Sentimentality Got Old, Fast

By Emily Harnett | May 17, 2016

The Unstoppable Myth of Alejandra Pizarnik

The Unstoppable Myth of Alejandra Pizarnik

A Poet of the Night, and Love, and Terror, and Tragedy

By Enrique Vila-Matas | May 17, 2016

How Katherine Dunn's <em>Geek Love</em> Saved Me

How Katherine Dunn's Geek Love Saved Me

For Helena Fitzgerald, the Right Book Came Along at the Right Time

By Helena Fitzgerald | May 17, 2016

I Am Jessa Crispin’s Problem with Publishing

I Am Jessa Crispin’s Problem with Publishing

Bethanne Patrick on Careerism, Criticism, and a Life in Books

By Bethanne Patrick | May 13, 2016

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The Dimunition of Women Writers: An American Tradition

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On Don DeLillo's Deep Italian-American Roots

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